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A 'gudgeon' is a

Pivot. A gudgeon serves as the base of a rocker or wheel

'Bumblepuppy' is

Tetherball. Bumblepuppy is a game played with a tennis ball slung to a post.

Who in the list below was the most 'lucifugous'?

Dracula. 'Lucifugous' meaning avoiding daylight.

'Macaronic' refers to:

a poem. A macaronic is a poem in which modern vernacular is mixed with Latin words or inflections.

If someone calls you 'sesquipedalian', he is saying you are:

fond of big words. Literally, a 'foot and a half', hence words of that length.

A 'xenopus' is an...

African frog. A xenopus is a frog with teeth in its upper jaw and tentacles on its head.

'Paraphilimea' is

love play. What can you say about such a word?

We've all heard the phrase 'Hoist with his own petard'. What is a petard?

Small explosive. Derived from the French word 'peter' which means 'to break wind', a petard was used to blow up bridges, casstle walls, etc.

If you are in a state of 'nullibiety' you are...

Nowhere. You can use this saying often: when I want something done, everyone else is in a state of nullibiety.

If you 'inpissate' the soup, you are

thickening it. to thicken a liquid by evaporation--to reduce, as sauce.

A 'quidnunc' is a

Gossip. Literally, quid nunc is latin for 'what now', one who is prying into others' affairs. Once referred to politicians.

If you are lapidating, you are...

stoning someone to death. We wanted to make one of the choices 'going out with Mick Jagger' but...

If someone calls you dirhinous, he means you...

have paired nostrils. From the Latin: di meaning two and rhinous meaning nose.

Of the list below, who was the 'Eponymous Hero'?

David Copperfield. An emponymous hero is the person after whom the work is named. Oliver Twist, Lassie, or the Three Muskateers all qualify

Leaping to the end of the alphabet 'zori' refers to:

Thong-type sandals. At the end of the summer, you never have to save your zori.